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The following is a list of medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics, held in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada from July 17 to August 1.
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Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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3 m springboard | Phil Boggs United States | Giorgio Cagnotto Italy | Aleksandr Kosenkov Soviet Union |
10 m platform | Klaus Dibiasi Italy | Greg Louganis United States | Vladimir Aleynik Soviet Union |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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3 m springboard | Jennifer Chandler United States | Christa Köhler East Germany | Cynthia Potter United States |
10 m platform | Elena Vaytsekhovskaya Soviet Union | Ulrika Knape Sweden | Deborah Wilson United States |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's | Darrell Pace United States | Hiroshi Michinaga Japan | Giancarlo Ferrari Italy |
Women's | Luann Ryon United States | Valentina Kovpan Soviet Union | Zebiniso Rustamova Soviet Union |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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K-1 500 m | Carola Zirzow (GDR) | Tatiana Korshunova (URS) | Klára Rajnai (HUN) |
K-2 500 m | Nina Gopova and Galina Kreft (URS) | Anna Pfeffer and Klára Rajnai (HUN) | Bärbel Köster and Carola Zirzow (GDR) |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual road race | Bernt Johansson Sweden | Giuseppe Martinelli Italy | Mieczysław Nowicki Poland |
Team time trial | Soviet Union (URS) Aavo Pikkuus Valery Chaplygin Anatoly Chukanov Vladimir Kaminsky | Poland (POL) Ryszard Szurkowski Tadeusz Mytnik Mieczysław Nowicki Stanisław Szozda | Denmark (DEN) Jørn Lund Verner Blaudzun Gert Frank Jørgen Hansen |
Individual pursuit | Gregor Braun West Germany | Herman Ponsteen Netherlands | Thomas Huschke East Germany |
Team pursuit | West Germany (FRG) Peter Vonhof Gregor Braun Hans Lutz Günther Schumacher | Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Sokolov Vladimir Osokin Aleksandr Perov Vitaly Petrakov | Great Britain (GBR) Ian Hallam Ian Banbury Michael Bennett Robin Croker |
Sprint | Anton Tkáč Czechoslovakia | Daniel Morelon France | Jürgen Geschke East Germany |
1000m time trial | Klaus-Jürgen Grünke East Germany | Michel Vaarten Belgium | Niels Fredborg Denmark |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Team all-around | Soviet Union (URS) Maria Filatova Svetlana Grozdova Nellie Kim Olga Korbut Elvira Saadi Ludmila Tourischeva | Romania (ROU) Nadia Comăneci Mariana Constantin Georgeta Gabor Anca Grigoraș Gabriela Trușcă Teodora Ungureanu | East Germany (GDR) Carola Dombeck Gitta Escher Kerstin Gerschau Angelika Hellmann Marion Kische Steffi Kräker |
Individual all-around | Nadia Comăneci Romania | Nellie Kim Soviet Union | Ludmila Tourischeva Soviet Union |
Balance beam | Nadia Comăneci Romania | Olga Korbut Soviet Union | Teodora Ungureanu Romania |
Floor exercise | Nellie Kim Soviet Union | Ludmila Tourischeva Soviet Union | Nadia Comăneci Romania |
Uneven bars | Nadia Comăneci Romania | Teodora Ungureanu Romania | Márta Egervári Hungary |
Vault | Nellie Kim Soviet Union | Ludmila Tourischeva Soviet Union Carola Dombeck East Germany | None awarded |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Lightweight 63 kg | Héctor Rodríguez Cuba | Chang Eun-Kyung South Korea | Felice Mariani Italy József Tuncsik Hungary |
Half Middleweight 70 kg | Vladimir Nevzorov Soviet Union | Koji Kuramoto Japan | Marian Tałaj Poland Patrick Vial France |
Middleweight 80 kg | Isamu Sonoda Japan | Valeriy Dvoynikov Soviet Union | Slavko Obadov Yugoslavia Park Young-Chul South Korea |
Half-Heavyweight 93 kg | Kazuhiro Ninomiya Japan | Ramaz Kharshiladze Soviet Union | Jürg Röthlisberger Switzerland David Starbrook Great Britain |
Heavyweight +93 kg | Sergei Novikov Soviet Union | Günther Neureuther West Germany | Allen Coage United States Sumio Endo Japan |
Open category | Haruki Uemura Japan | Keith Remfry Great Britain | Cho Jea-Ki South Korea Shota Chochishvili Soviet Union |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual | Janusz Pyciak-Peciak Poland | Pavel Lednyov Soviet Union | Jan Bártů Czechoslovakia |
Team | Great Britain (GBR) Jim Fox Danny Nightingale Adrian Parker | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Jan Bártů Bohumil Starnovský Jiří Adam | Hungary (HUN) Tamás Kancsal Tibor Maracskó Szvetiszláv Sasics |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Finn | Jochen Schümann (GDR) | Andrei Balashov (URS) | John Bertrand (AUS) |
470 | West Germany (FRG) Frank Hübner Harro Bode | Spain (ESP) Antonio Gorostegui Pedro Millet | Australia (AUS) Ian Brown Ian Ruff |
Flying Dutchman | West Germany (FRG) Jörg Diesch Eckart Diesch | Great Britain (GBR) Rodney Pattisson Julian Brooke-Houghton | Brazil (BRA) Reinaldo Conrad Peter Ficker |
Tornado | Great Britain (GBR) Reginald White John Osborn | United States (USA) David McFaull Michael Rothwell | West Germany (FRG) Jörg Spengler Jörg Schmall |
Tempest | Sweden (SWE) John Albrechtson Ingvar Hansson | Soviet Union (URS) Valentin Mankin Vladislav Akimenko | United States (USA) Dennis Conner Conn Findlay |
Soling | Denmark (DEN) Poul Richard Høj Jensen Valdemar Bandolowski Erik Hansen | United States (USA) John Kolius Walter Glasgow Richard Hoepfner | East Germany (GDR) Dieter Below Michael Zachries Olaf Engelhardt |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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free pistol | Uwe Potteck (GDR) | Harald Vollmar (GDR) | Rudolf Dollinger (AUT) |
rapid fire pistol | Norbert Klaar (GDR) | Jürgen Wiefel (GDR) | Roberto Ferraris (ITA) |
running target | Aleksandr Gazov (URS) | Aleksandr Kediarov (URS) | Jerzy Greszkiewicz (POL) |
rifle prone | Karlheinz Smieszek (FRG) | Ulrich Lind (FRG) | Gennadi Lushchikov (URS) |
rifle three positions | Lanny Bassham (USA) | Margaret Murdock (USA) | Werner Seibold (FRG) |
skeet | Josef Panáček (TCH) | Eric Swinkels (NED) | Wiesław Gawlikowski (POL) |
Trap | Donald Haldeman (USA) | Armando Marques (POR) | Ubaldesco Baldi (ITA) |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Flyweight –52 kg | Aleksandr Voronin Soviet Union | György Kőszegi Hungary | Mohammad Nassiri Iran |
Bantamweight 52–56 kg | Norair Nurikyan Bulgaria | Grzegorz Cziura Poland | Kenkichi Ando Japan |
Featherweight 56–60 kg | Nikolay Kolesnikov Soviet Union | Georghi Todorov Bulgaria | Kazumasa Hirai Japan |
Lightweight 60–67.5 kg | Pyotr Korol Soviet Union | Daniel Senet France | Kazimierz Czarnecki Poland |
Middleweight 67.5–75 kg | Yordan Mitkov Bulgaria | Vardan Militosyan Soviet Union | Peter Wenzel East Germany |
Light-heavyweight 75–82.5 kg | Valery Shary Soviet Union | Trendafil Stoitchev Bulgaria | Peter Baczako Hungary |
Middle-heavyweight 82.5–90 kg | David Rigert Soviet Union | Lee James United States | Atanas Shopov Bulgaria |
Heavyweight 90-110 kg | Yuri Zaitsev Soviet Union | Krastiu Semerdzhiev Bulgaria | Tadeusz Rutkowski Poland |
Super heavyweight +110 kg | Vasiliy Alekseyev Soviet Union | Gerd Bonk East Germany | Helmut Losch East Germany |
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